Shirley Hazzard, who passed away this week, was one of the great prose stylists of the last 50 years. A deeply intellectual autodidact, she championed the public duty of writers and the pleasure of reading.

Georgia Blain: Her work draws attention to the tiny incandescent moments that make up our lives.
Scribe Publications13 décembre 2016

The Australian writer Georgia Blain, who died last week, wrote extraordinary portraits of family relationships, in luminous prose, with devastating insight. And when she became ill, she wrote about her cancer.

Tile detail of RMIT’s Building 8, one of Peter Corrigan’s most famous designs.
Rob Deutscher/Flickr6 décembre 2016

Editing a movie beside the late, great Paul Cox was like attending 'a one on one' film school. The growling auteur was a brilliantly stubborn man, who treated film with reverence and wore his heart on his sleeve.